Prof Rose Anne Kenny: ‘Loneliness can be a killer’. Picture: Julien Behal Photography Rose Anne Kenny, regius professor of medicine at Trinity College Dublin, welcomes the robust study.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Loneliness does not kill, it is the depression that comes with it that kills, experts have ...

Loneliness poses a risk as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, according to a 2023 U.S. Surgeon General report.

Coping with loneliness can be difficult, with older adults more likely to be affected. Here's how you can try and find a community. Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, with a focus on ...

“I feel the great weight of loneliness. It’s something very private. I don’t share this with ­anyone because the one person I would share it with is no longer here.” Her husband ...

It wasn’t until much later that I recognized my own experiences were part of a larger pattern of loneliness common in emerging adulthood. By definition, loneliness is a discrepancy between the social ...

In 2023, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared an American epidemic of loneliness and isolation, releasing an extensive advisory on the danger that a lack of social connection causes to health.